In the 1970s, people called high-rise buildings slums built up into the sky, and now film-maker Ben Wheatley has built the 1970s out into the future. His new film High-Rise is a bizarre spectacle, sleek and seedy and mad: a world of sideburns, brutalist concrete and shag-pile carpeting matted with fag ash and blood. Very strange, very Sanderson. It’s closer to an installation of non-narrative freakiness and outrageous self-indulgence. This indulgence is the film’s flaw, but it is also in some way its subject.
A long way down: the nightmare of JG Ballard’s towering vision
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Wheatley (the director of disturbing movies such as Sightseers and Kill List) and his screenwriter Amy Jump have adapted JG Ballard’s cult novel from 1975 about a state-of-the-art residential tower block whose inhabitants succumb to a collective nervous breakdown, apparently as a result of the building itself. Designed to anticipate every rational human need, it has somehow only succeeded in triggering the tenants’ subconscious desire for chaos and destruction, a need to vandalise its supposed perfection.

Film start 7 pm.

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Tanja

Treffen "Movie in English (OMU)"Hello everbody,
lets watch the movie HIGH RISE
In the 1970s, people called high-rise buildings slums built up into the sky, and...